Posted at 6:46 PM on 10-30-09 by Rob T Firefly
A bunch of us worked out our plan of attack over IMs. We’re going to start gathering in front of the entrance to the Hotel Pennsylvania at around 3. We’ll hang out there and wait for more of us until around 4:30, when we’ll grab a C/E to Spring St, and meet the rest of us by the line-up area. Where is unforeseeable; they block off the zone in weird and different ways every year, so we’ll have to find a place and wing it. I’ll have my phone on me and will be trying to corral folks via calls and texts, so if I don’t have your info and you would like me to, get in touch!
There are more details in a mass BCC’d email I just sent out to everyone I know of who expressed interest in going. If you want to join up and you haven’t yet gotten an email from me, get in touch and I’ll forward it on to you!
Also: yay!
tags: events, fun, nyc
Posted at 7:03 AM on 10-28-09 by Rob T Firefly
Want to see something scary?
This Saturday, you are cordially invited to join us for our traditional tomfoolery in the Village Halloween Parade. A bunch of us participate every year, and it never fails to be lots of fun!
The parade is of course the main Halloween celebration in New York – and many say the entire country, if not the entire world. Starting at Sixth Street and Broome Avenue, the parade marches uptown all the way to 21st street. Anyone in costume is welcome to march in the parade, and your fellow paraders will be all over the spectrum from the quickest face-paint job or dollar-store mask to creations so elaborate your head will spin. For more info, check out the event’s Wikipedia article and official site.
Many NYC2600 folks, including this editor, occasionally or regularly participate in the parade. In years past, many of us have managed to gather before the parade, dig each other’s costumery, perform at the event together, and hang out afterward on the one truly wild event of this scale our town has left.
The plans can be finalized via this post in our Livejournal forum. (A Livejournal account isn’t required to post comments, anonymous comments are enabled. An OpenID will also work.) You can use those comment threads to discuss meeting up, or contact me privately and I’ll be sure to keep you in the loop.
Regulars, newbies, and complete strangers alike are all more than welcome to join us! Get in touch.
tags: events, fun, nyc
Posted at 12:25 AM on 9-8-09 by Rob T Firefly
If you were at least week’s meeting, you might have been given a charming orange card alerting you to the existence of Alpha One Labs, New York City’s newest up-and-running hackerspace.
Psytek and the rest of the crew behind Alpha One Labs have gotten things going in practically no time. They’ve already got a physical space in Williamsburg, open meetings, open membership, and the first of their public classes will be happening soon. You can also follow Alpha One Labs on Twitter.
For more info on hackerspaces, visit hackerspaces.org.
tags: fun, nyc, plug, resource
Posted at 4:36 AM on 8-21-09 by Rob T Firefly
Good news for users of Meetup.com! The enterprising Casey has chosen to organize an NYC2600 group on the service, bringing us a full step closer to our eventual takeover of the entire Internet. Click here to begin your enjoyment of the NYC2600 Meetup group.
As always, if you are interested in finding existing NYC2600 collectives on the Internet’s various social networks, or starting a new one where none yet exists, check out our Internet Forums page.
tags: fun, meetings, nyc, plug
Posted at 3:31 AM on 7-21-09 by Rob T Firefly
The very first Wiki-Conference NYC is happening this weekend, July 25-26. The event will be hosted at NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia NYC.
In addition to keynotes by Jimmy Wales and Ira Brad Matetsky, the event will feature presentations of interest to local Wikimedia, Creative Commons, and Free Culture enthusiasts. If there is a particular subject you would like to present about or see presented, suggestions for panels and presentations are still open. More info can be found on the event’s Wiki page.
tags: events, nyc
